Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5bfe89f5eeb78b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 13:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 20abd647462e045cc201c6eeb999235c SHA-1: 97bb8365ad25af1a37a7d609ba2c682f5d0615e0 SHA-256: c5bfe89f5eeb78b269cec84da8973d193fa2c22f2a87e26c277af2073b99405b
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body and embedded links suggest a tactic of creating numerous PDFs with SEO-friendly titles to attract clicks, potentially leading to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=skripsi%20data%20kuantitatif%20pdf
    • http://files.hhhschoirs.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398428/8542871.pdf
    • http://files.fotsga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739311/ee63bb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6996/4439/files/javascript_blob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0477/1999/files/free_calendar_2020_malaysia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6642/4470/files/62723553396.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2643/9582/files/87011558578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8958/2487/files/best_video_downloader_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0209/files/23104972597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9388/5089/files/alagappan_general_medicine_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4774/6716/files/2019_draft_cheat_sheet_fantasy_football.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3823/5031/files/jotipaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3748/9309/files/givenuxemuxagixopudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2344/8736/files/fibatokurew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/ad_d_2nd_edition_files.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1333/files/68334342069.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b317.bin
2031289c0b60a1907c43684268c605cefb06729272a72c6c4a47ec713eb3dc13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB317 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4b8.bin
759d965520922c7d82ecd6272bda573fb4cc8a02699173988e0ea7a5956d394f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B8 10516 bytes